Dell Alienware M14x Service Manual page 7

Advanced Menu
Allows you to enable or disable the Intel SpeedStep technology. Disabling this feature may improve performance, but will
Intel SpeedStep
greatly reduce battery life.
Allows you to enable or disable the Intel Virtualization technology.
Virtualization
Allows you to enable or disable the USB emulation feature. This feature defines how the BIOS, in the absence of a USB-aware
USB Emulation
operating system, handles USB devices. USB emulation is always enabled during POST.
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Allows you to enable USB devices to wake the computer from standby or to disable the USB wake support feature.
USB Wake Support
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Allows you to charge USB devices when the computer is turned off or in standby mode.
USB Power Share
Allows you to enable or disable the on-board LAN controller.
Integrated Network
Allows you to enable or disable the internal high definition audio device.
High Definition Audio
Allows you to enable or disable the internal SD card reader.
SD Card Reader
Allows you to configure fields in the Performance Options sub-menu (for more information, see
Performance Options
Options
Allows you to configure the operating mode of the integrated SATA hard drive controller.
SATA Operation
Displays the installed SATA hard drive model.
SATA HARD DRIVE 1
Allows you to choose if the computer should display warning messages when you use certain power adapters. The computer
Adapter Warnings
displays these messages if you attempt to use a power adapter that has too little capacity for your configuration.
Allows you to enable or disable battery charging.
Charger Behavior
Advanced — Performance Options Menu
Allows you to enable or disable the Intel CPU turbo mode performance option.
CPU Turbo Mode
Allows you to enable or disable the global overclocking feature.
Overclocking Features
Allows you to override CPU turbo mode settings.
Override Turbo settings
Long Duration Power Allows you to set the turbo mode power limit 1 value in watts.
Limit
Long Duration Time Allows you to set the turbo mode time 1 value in seconds.
Window
Short Duration Power Allows you to enable or disable short duration power limit.
Limit
Short Duration Time Allows you to set the turbo mode power limit 2 value in watts.
Window
Bus Clock
Current Frequency Displays the current bus clock frequency.
New Frequency in Allows you to enter a new bus clock frequency in 10 Khz increments.
10KHz increments
Apply New Bus Clock Allows you to apply the new bus clock frequency
Frequency
You cannot boot any type of USB device (floppy, hard drive, or memory key) when this option is off.
If USB Powershare is enabled, a device connected to the USB Powershare connector may not wake the computer.
AC Only: Charge USB devices when connected to AC adapter only.
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AC and Battery: Charge USB devices when connected to AC adapter and when the computer is running on battery.
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Disabled: Disables USB PowerShare.
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Disabled: Internal LAN is disabled and is not visible to the operating system.
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Enabled: Internal LAN is enabled.
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Disabled: The internal audio device is disabled and is not visible to the operating system.
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Enabled: The internal audio device is enabled.
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ATA: SATA is configured for ATA mode.
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AHCI: SATA is configured for AHCI mode.
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Disabled: BIOS will not detect unsupported AC adapters and will not display any message on the screen.
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Enabled: BIOS will detect unsupported AC adapters and display an error on the screen.
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Disabled: The overclocking feature is disabled.
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Enabled: Displays additional overclocking options.
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Immediately: The new bus clock frequency is applied immediately.
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Advanced — Performance